🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Lilva Kachori

Name: Lilva Kachori
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1.25 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp, grated Ginger; 2, minced Green Chili; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; 1, juiced Lemon; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1.5 cups Gram Flour; 3 tbsp + for frying Peanut Oil; 1 cup, fresh (lilva) Pigeon Peas

🇮🇳 Indian

Winter in Gujarat, wrapped in pastry: fresh pigeon peas (lilva) sweetened, spiced and sealed in a crisp fried shell. Surti households guard this recipe like jewellery.

Prep 40 min Cook 25 min Serves 6 Medium

Ingredients

Salt1.25 tsp
Ginger1 tbsp, grated
Green Chili2, minced
Cumin Seeds1 tsp
Lemon1, juiced
Sugar1 tbsp
Gram Flour1.5 cups
Peanut Oil3 tbsp + for frying
Pigeon Peas1 cup, fresh (lilva)

Instructions

1
Knead gram flour with oil, salt and water into a stiff pastry dough; rest 20 minutes.
2
Cook lilva with green chilies, ginger, sugar and lemon till tender and jammy; cool.
3
Roll discs, spoon in the filling, pleat and seal into kachoris.
4
Fry on low-medium till the shell is pale gold and flaky.
5
Crack open and serve hot with chutney.

Chef's tip

Fry gently the whole way — kachori shells blister white if rushed and split open.

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Watch how it's made

Video: લીલવાની કચોરી ખસતા અને નવી ટ્રીક સાથે બનાવો ઢગલાબંધ | Lilva Kachori | lilva ni kachori | kachori · on YouTube